Who is Jay Gatsby?

Right now I am on chapter ten in The Great Gatsby. I have not used the blogging prompts sheet that Mrs. Bross gave us at all yet, so I am going to use it now. I am going to answer the question, “What is the most important line from that chapter?” I think the most important line from chapter ten is “The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God- a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that- and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to his conception he was faithful to the end” (Fitzgerald 104).

            Just read this line. One, maybe two more times. Who says stuff like that? Apparently Nick does. This is his most descriptive and evidentially truthful description of Gatsby that I have heard through-out the whole book. This line is not only important in understanding the chapter, but also the book. This section shows how the whole book is about Gatsby and how mysterious he is. It is over 100 pages into the book and people are still making accusations about Mr. Jay Gatsby. I can’t help but wonder, who is Gatsby?